Sentences with phrase «called hibernation»

Linguistically speaking, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new film could have been called Hibernation, but Winter Sleep not only sounds better, it captures the dreamy quality of the veteran filmmaker's Palme d'Or winner without conjuring images of snoozing grizzlies.

Reverse T3 has opposite effects of T3, and has long been associated with a set of symptoms aptly called hibernation syndrome — fatigue, weight gain, and so on.

Not exact matches

The buzzing sound still continues... I am going back into hibernation... what I choose to call «Peaceful Opposition»!

HIV can hide in a «state of hibernation» in the so - called CD4 cells.

The oblivion of prolonged sleep, of hibernation, is an enduring human fantasy from the suspended animation travel of today's space fiction heroes to the old legends of knights who slept under mountains for centuries, awaiting calls to arise and save their nations.

Some earlier research suggested that polar bears could, at least partially, compensate for longer summer food deprivation by entering a state of lowered activity and reduced metabolic rate similar to winter hibernation — a so - called «walking hibernation.»

Field observations show that when an alluring she - male snake exits its hibernation den, male suitors form a so - called mating ball around it almost immediately.

Originally called the Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the NEOWISE spacecraft was put into hibernation in 2011 after its primary mission was completed.

Recently, researchers led by John Hallenbeck, M.D., an NINDS senior investigator and co-senior author of the study, found that a cellular process called SUMOylation goes into overdrive in a certain species of ground squirrel during hibernation.

After the weeks - long checkout, the probe will be put back into hibernation for the last time in August, with a wakeup call set for December.

This fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, infects bats during hibernation causing a disease called white - nose syndrome.

Chesapeake Bay blue crabs get their celebrated buttery flavor from the fat stores they accumulate during hibernation, according to Maryland's Department of Natural Resources; locals call those fat deposits «mustard.»

That's why I call RT3 the hibernation hormone: You gain weight and want to sleep all the time.

Between the sluggish hibernation of Winter and the body - baring days of Summer, there's a very helpful season called Spring.

January has normally been my month of hibernation, my detox month as a like to call it.

Thus, they emerge from hibernation for a few weeks in the spring, before diving right back down into their burrows for the worst of the summer — the summertime equivalent to hibernation is called aestivation.

The population has declined dramatically due to a disease called «White Nose Syndrome,» a fungus that humans help spread by disturbing bat hibernation sites.

Apparently, water bears survive by entering a state of hibernation called cryptobiosis, where its metabolism slows down to less than 0.01 percent of its normal rate.

That's such a big opportunity that, disclosure, I briefly advised a company called Signal that was trying to solve this, though the startup is now in hibernation.